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In today’s bulletin (6pm 13-4-2021):

• The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Selena Uibo has said everything is being done to ensure kinship care is available for Aboriginal children.
• The Federal Government have confirmed that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will not be purchased and administered in the country.
• A lack of phone coverage and power is hampering clean up efforts from ex tropical Seroja, which ravaged the town of Kalbarri and other communities in the mid west.
• The Ampilatwatja Health Centre Aboriginal Corporation has been placed under special administration. The community run health clinic services around 500 people in the Utopia region 320 kilometres north east of Mbantwe Alice Springs.
• More than $220,000 in funding has been provided to Aboriginal owned tourism businesses around the Territory.
• First Nations groups are calling on the Federal Government to keep to their promise of allowing Aboriginal people to own more water.
• and in sport, AFLW player for the Adelaide Crows Chelsea Randall will not play in the ompetitions grand final against the Brisbane Lions due to a concussion injury.

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In today’s bulletin (6pm 12-4-2021):

• The NT Opposition is calling on the Territory Government to recall parliament this week to specifically deal with youth crime in the Territory.
• A study from Charles Darwin University has revealed that a westernised education model in the NT is not setting up remote Aboriginal students for success but instead is keeping them marginalised.
• A protest in Mbantwe Alice Springs on Saturday has called for Federal and State Governments to implement the recommendations into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down nearly 30 years ago.
• The Dark Mofo Festival has confirmed that it will go ahead as planned in June, despite the cancellation of a controversial artwork where a Union Jack flag would be submerged in First Nations people’s donated blood.
• Bone tools found in a cave site with the help of the local Mimbi community in the Kimberley region are believed to be more than 35,000 years old.
• Medical supplies are being sent from Darwin to Timor-Leste as the country continues to tackle health issues in communities after landslides and flash flooding which has killed around 200 people so far.
• Stable power has been promised to remote communities in the NT, with the Gunner Government announcing new funding to deliver clean electricity.
• Almost 8000 visits were recorded at the opening weekend of the Parrtjima Festival in Mbantwe Alice Springs, with reports of low vacancy rates at hotels across the town.
• The Australian Defence Force will be mobilised to support communities in southeast Western Australia that have been hit by ex-Tropical Cyclone Seroja.
• and in sport Gunggandji, Birrbay and Wiradjuri man and Melbourne Storm NRL player Josh Addo Carr said the growing interest in playing rugby league in the NT is exciting for the game.

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In today’s bulletin (6pm 9-4-2021):

• The primary health care service for Aboriginal people in Central Australia has also reassured clients that AstraZenica vaccines is safe to be administered despite an extremely small number of cases of blood clotting linked to the vaccine.
• Meanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia has secured a further 20 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine adding to the 20 million already ordered.
• A group of Australian Medical Assistance Team doctors and two pallets of medical supplies left Darwin and are travelling to Papua New Guinea to help with the country’s COVID-19 crisis.
• An inquest being held in North Queensland into the death in custody of a First Nations man has found that he received sub optimal treatment from paramedics.
• A recently established group from Tennant Creek aiming to tackle anti-social behavior in the town are looking for more volunteers.
• The Territory government has granted the largest-ever groundwater extraction licence in the NT to an agribusiness that plans to use 40,000 megalitres a year to irrigate farming operations.
• A design tender has been released for the planned National Aboriginal Art Gallery by the Territory Government set to be built at Mbantwe Alice Springs’ ANZAC Hill Precinct.
• This years Parrtjima festival kicks off tonight in Mbantwe Alice Springs, hosted at the Alice Springs Desert Park and the Todd Mall.
• And in sport, the 2021 seasons of the NRL NT, Central Australian Football League (CAFL) and community AFL competitions have been announced.